Players
Rat's Nest
Every five minutes, from the Steam server list.
Hourly average and peak, UTC.
Daily average and peak, UTC.
Server performance
48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 1 Oct. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.
Rank
Top 65% of all ranked servers, top 84% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.
Wipe schedule
Next wipe Friday 30 October, 20:29 UTC, in 18h. Its weekly schedule tag · low confidence
Coming wipes
The first 48 hours of its last wipes
Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 1, 0 hours in.
Wipes
| Wiped | Peak | Crowd | Lasted | Players before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fri 9 Oct, 20:29 UTC20d ago | 1 | – | running | 0 |
| Fri 2 Oct, 12:12 UTC27d ago | 0 | – | 7.3 days | 0 |
Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.
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Quick answers
About the server
Is Rat's Nest online, and how reliable is it?
You will find Rat's Nest online at this moment. Going by the reported uptime, it restarted roughly 11 hours ago. 167 of 168 hours is what it managed over the past 7 full days, 99% of the time. Its earliest entry with Rust Charts dates from 1 October 2026.
Where is Rat's Nest located?
With its EU tag, Rat's Nest puts itself in Europe. Rust Charts doesn't look up where the machine stands; it shows where the server says it is. 66.51.97.51:28050 is its address.
Which version of Rust does Rat's Nest run?
Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 on Linux is the version Rat's Nest runs. Steam updates your game for you; all you need is the same protocol to join.
Does Rat's Nest run smoothly?
It averaged 5 server fps over the last 48 hours, with a floor of 5. Buildings, deployables and all the rest of the world came to as many as 2,555 entities. Memory use peaked at 1,160 MB. What players feel as lag comes from low fps and an entity count on the rise.
Population
How busy is Rat's Nest?
Rat's Nest has 0 of its 100 slots filled right now. Over the last week it averaged 0 players; the high point was 1.
How does Rat's Nest rank against other Rust servers?
The last seven days of player hours put Rat's Nest at #14,568, top 65% of ranked servers, and #2,461 in Europe.
Wipes and resets
What does wipe day look like on Rat's Nest?
Its recent wipes peaked at an average of 0 players. 0 hours into the latest wipe, the crowd reached its peak.
What is the wipe schedule on Rat's Nest?
The prediction falls back on the tag, because Rat's Nest's record is too thin to confirm a schedule. The wipe after this one is due Friday 30 October at 20:29 UTC. The world it runs now dates from 20 days 5 hours. A weekly wipe schedule is published in its tags.
Rules and world
What are the rules and settings on Rat's Nest?
You will not find a gather rate in the name Rat's Nest. 10 players is the maximum for a group. You play survival, raid, build and gather: the standard game. You can fight and raid other players. Plugins or settings change the game, and it is listed under Modded. You will find Carbon plugins running. Valve's VAC anti-cheat is active.
Which map does Rat's Nest run?
Rat's Nest runs a procedural map of size 1,000 with seed 1337, generated by the game. You can view it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed produce the same map. You will see the map name as: Custom Map.
Lists and filters
Which Rust Charts lists and filters include Rat's Nest?
The Rust Charts lists that carry Rat's Nest are: EU Rust servers and Modded Rust servers. These filters on the server list bring it up: Region: Europe; Type: Modded; Server tag: Weekly ^w, Modded ^z and Carbon ^y; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Weekly.
What do the server tags on Rat's Nest mean?
The game's server browser sees these tags from Rat's Nest: gmrust (Game mode): Standard survival rules apply; mp100 (Max players): The server holds 100 slots; ts10 (Group limit): The team cap is 10; v2635 (Protocol): The server speaks protocol 2635, so your game needs the same version; cs168909 (Build): This server reports build 168909; ptrak (Networking): RakNet is the network layer here, the game's default; $r? (Region code): The region code is unset; ^w (Weekly): Wipes happen every week; ^z (Modded): Plugins or changed settings put this server under Modded; ^y (Carbon): Plugins run on Carbon here; EU (Europe): Europe is where the server browser lists it. At the top of this page you'll see the tags' extra details: players now, the queue, and the age of the world.
Join details
How do I join Rat's Nest?
Press F1 in Rust to open the console and type client.connect 66.51.97.51:28050. Joining on this page with Launch Rust works too, opening Rust through Steam and connecting you.
